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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Anja’s involvement with her friend she "always ran to see" even after she and Vladek were married?
(a) She helps him write political tracts.
(b) She helps him find houses for refugees.
(c) She translates his messages into German.
(d) She brings him money for political prisoners.

2. Why does Artie say, in Chpater 1, that he wants to gather this information about Anja?
(a) He says that he won’t know the story until he hears it.
(b) He says that he wants to know his father better.
(c) He says that he wants to tell a personal story, not a story about the Holocaust.
(d) He says that it makes his father’s story more human.

3. What happened in the Bielsko factory while Vladek and Anja were away?
(a) There were labor riots
(b) It was robbed.
(c) There was a fire.
(d) There was a murder.

4. When does Artie’s father say he quit school to work?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Nine.

5. How does Vladek characterize Anja’s family?
(a) Trades people.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Poor workers.
(d) Millionaires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Artie's father give for what he is doing in Chapter 2?

2. How does Artie describe the relationship between his father and Anja?

3. What does Artie’s father say his father-in-law wanted to procure for him?

4. Where does Artie's father live, in the beginning of the memoir?

5. What is Artie's father doing while he is telling Artie his story?

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